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No. 741,932. I *PATENTED OCT. 20,1903. E. A. SANGUINB'I'.

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Patented October 20, 1903.

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"ATENT TO HENRY C. BRENNER,

OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 741,932; dated October 20, 1903.

Application filed July 12, 1902- .To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. SANGUINET, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertai'ns to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompa- IO nying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an elevation, partly in section. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, at right angles to the view shown in Fig. 1; and

I5 Fig. 3 is a plan View, partly in section, certain of the parts being broken away.

My invention relates to improvements in 7 toys, and more particularly to apparatus designed to simulate a horse-race.

One object of my invention is to provide a mechanism wherein the various horses are given a series of impulses which occur wholly by chance, the horses being thus given the appearance of spurting at irregular intervals.

A further object is to provide an improved mechanism for actuating the horses; and another object is to provide improved mechan ism for controlling the power mechanism.

To these ends and also to improve generally upon devices of the character indicated my invention consists in the various matters hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the baseframe, which is here shown as composed of the lower member 2, open at its top, and a rectangular member 3, received within and fitting upon the said member 2. A central post 4 rises vertically from a suitable cross-piece or other bottom member 5 upon the upper section of the supporting-base, and said post conveniently extends above the top of the upper edge of the upper'base member 3. Suitably secured to the walls of the upperbase member is a top plate 6, which is provided with a circular central opening, and within this opening and supported by .the heretofore-mentioned post 1 is a central top plate 7. Between the said plates 6 and 7 and spaced from the same and from each other in order to produce circular slots 8 are rings 9, which lie slots 8.

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in the horizontal plane in which the plates (3 and 7 are included, said rings being supported by columns or fingers 10, which de pend from bars 11,secured to a suitable hub 12, supported upon the said post 4:. Aglass casing 13 preferably covers the top of the de- V108.

Loosely mounted upon the post t is asleeve 14, which is adapted to be oscillated in a man to nor to be hereinafter described, and loosely mounted upon said sleeve are hubs 15. Badially extending from opposite sides of said hubs are arms 16. These'arms have their ends upturned to produce fingers 17, which lie sub- 5 stantially in line with the before-mentioned Each of these fingers carries a suitable figure 18, here shown as a horse having a jockey mounted thereon, and the connection between a finger and the horse carried there by is preferably made through a thin springplate 19, so that as an arm is given impulses the horse will rock or vibrate. Fingers 20, suitably spaced about the said hubs 15, extend radially therefrom intermediate the said arms, each hub being here shown as provided with two oppositely-extending arms and with six of the said fingers 20. Fast upon the sleeve 14 are collars 21, in which depending pawls 22 are pivotally mounted, the collars being provided with suitable stop members 23 tolimit the movement of the pawls in one direction, although said pawls are free to move in the opposite direction. A collar 21 is mounted immediately above each of the hubs 15, and the pawl upon a collar depends through the plane of the fingers and arms carried by the particular hub adjacent the collar. Thus as the sleeve 14 is oscillated the pawls oscillate with the same, and in what 0' might be termed their backward movement they simply ride over the arms and fingers upon the hubs 15. In the reverse movement of the sleeve and pawls, however, a pawl may engage one of the arms or fingers upon the hub, and if such engagement is made this particular hub is of course given a fresh impulse. As the hubs are rotating loosely upon the sleeve 14 a pawl in its forward movement may not engage a finger or arm, and in such event the hub will of course be given no impulse from the powerdriven sleeve. On the other hand, the parts may chance to be so re lated that a hub may receive successive impulses at each of several forward movements of a collar. Therefore the start given a horse has very little to do in determining the outcome of the race, as the rear horse may receive an impulse at the end of the race, and this impulse may be sufficient to cause the said horse to win.

Interest can be added to the game by scoring so much for each player whose horse stops at a certain portion of the track, although such horse may not win the race. In order to provide for this, the rings 9 are provided with radial divisions 23 which can be conveniently produced by wires or the like 24, extending radially across the said rings, the spaces produced by said wires being arbitrarily numbered, as shown in Fig. 3. Pivotally secured to each horse is a depending pointer 25, which rides along one of the rings, and such pointer leaves no chance for dispute as to the particular space over which a horse stops. The transverse wires 24 are so narrow that a pointer cannot rest upon the same when a horse has stopped, and the pointer must therefore always lie in some definite division 23.

It will be apparent that various forms of power mechanisms can be provided for oscillating the sleeve 14, and such power mechanisms can be driven from many sources, as from a manually-operated crank-sh f t, from a spring-driven gear, from a source of electrical supply, the. I have, however, here shown a simple clockwork mechanism for driving the said sleeve.

In the clockwork mechanism here illustrated 26 represents a gear-wheel driven by a spring 27, having one end mounted upon a winding-arbor 28, while a suitable train of gears connects the said driving-gear with a driven shaft 29,having a crank-arm 3O mounted thereon. A forked lever 31 is connected to said crank-arm by a suitable link 32, and the fork-arms 33 of said lever have opposite ends of a driving cord or cable 34 secured to them, said cord or cable passing about a drum 35, fixed to the sleeve 14. The cord is also fastened to the said drum at one point, as by an eye 36, so that positive driving of the drum by the said lever is insured.

The winding-arbor 28 is provided with a beveled gear 37, which meshes with a corresponding gear 38 upon a shaft 39, which extends through an opening in one of the walls of the machine, this shaft having suitable provision for receiving a windingkey, so that the spring can be wound from outside the casing. Of course many means can be provided for regulating the speed of the driven parts. I have here shown a cross-bar 40 so mounted in a sleeve upon the arbor 41 of one of the driven gears that said cross-bar can be adjusted in said sleeve about its longitudinal axis, a suitable set-screw 42 being provided for holding the said bar in adjusted position, and fan-blades 43 are mounted upon opposite ends of said bar. By turning the bar about its longitudinal axis, and therefore varying the angle at which the fanblades are presented to the air, the speed of the device can be regulated in a manner which will at once be apparent. The governor just described is located in the casing and requires some little time for its adjustment. In order to provide a governor which can be easily controlled by the operator, I pivot a bell-crank lever 44 upon some suitable part of the casing and provide one arm of said lever with a spring-plate 45, which bears upon the periphery of some suitable rotating part, as upon a disk 46 upon the arbor 41. The other end of said lever extends in the path of travel of an adjustingscrew. 47, suitably seated upon the casing. Thus if the screw is fed inwardlyits end engages one arm of the bell-crank lever and forces the spring-plate 45 upon the periphery of the disk 46, thus braking the driving mechanism. As the screw is rotated in the opposite direction, however, the pressure upon the cooperating arm of the bell-crank lever is relieved and pressure is also taken oif the disk 46. Preferably I provide the device with a signal which is operated whenever the machine is thrown into operation, so that the attendant will be notified. In the present embodiment of my invention I have shown suchsignal as comprising a bell or gong 48, which is struck by a rotatable clapper 49, of any suitable construction, driven from the clock-train in any convenient manner. The spring actuating the clock-train having been wound, my invention contemplates means fol-starting the train at the will of the operator and for stopping the same after it has been in operation for a suitable period of time. As here shown, the clock-train is normally locked in inactive condition by means of a lever 50, which has an arm 51, adapted to lie in the path of movement of a stop-pin 52 upon the main gear-wheel 26. The other arm 53 of said lever is connected by a link 54 with a slidable plate 55, which is wholly contained within the casing of the machine, and therefore cannot be directly moved by the operator, a suitable spring 56, connected to the rear end of said plate and to some appropriate fixed portion of the machine, yieldingly holding said plate in what may be termed its retracted or normal position-i. 6., the position which it occupies when it throws and maintains the lever-arm 51 into position in the path of travel of the stop-pin 52. The slidable plate 55 extends vertically, and parallel with said plate is a second vertical slidable plate 57, which is spaced from the plate 55 a sufficient distance to permit an operating-coin to be-received between said plates. Fingers 58 and 59 extend laterally from the respective plates 55 and 57 and project into the space between said plates, the

fingers upon the plate 57 lying in advance of corresponding fingers upon the plate 55, whereby when no coin is inthe space between the said plates the plate 57 can be moved outwardly without effecting movement of the plate 55. When, however, a coin is introduced between the said plates, it forms a connection between the fingers upon the respective plates, so that if the plate 57 be then pulled outwardly by means of its handle 60 the plate 55 will be correspondingly moved and will, through the link 54:, rock the lever 50 to carry its locking-arm 51 out of engagement with the stop-pin 52, thereby releasing the clock-train and permitting the operation of the device.

In order to hold the lever 50 in a position into which it has been moved, I provide a spring-plate 61, having two recesses 62, each.

of which is adapted to receive the projecting portion of the pivot-pin 63, which connects the link 54 and the lever 50. Normally the said pin rests in the rearmost of said recesses, and thelever is then in position to cause the arm 51 to prevent movement of the stop-pin 52. When the slide-plate 55 is drawn outwardly, however, in the manner previously explained, the pin or projection 63 is pulled from the recess 62, in which it has rested, and is carried into the other of said recesses, the lever being then supported in such position that its locking-arm 51 is out of the path of movement of the stop-pin 52. As soon as the lever 51 has been rocked into releasing position the clock-train starts and the mechanism operates. The winding-arbor 28 or some other shaft suitably driven from the clocktrain carries a radially-projecting finger 65. This finger lies slightly in advance of the arm 53 of the controlling-lever 50 when the parts are at rest; and said lever is thus free to be thrown into unlocking position. When it is thrown into such position, however, the arm 53 is brought into the path of movement of the said finger 65, and when the gear-wheel 26 is about to complete a full revolution this finger engages the arm 53 of the controllinglever and throws the pin 63 out of the forward recess 62, in which it has been resting, whereupon the spring 56 asserts itself, and the lever is thrown into its normal position to bring its locking-arm 51 in the path of movement of the stop-pin 52, the clock-train thus stopping after the main gear 26 has made one complete revolution.

The top plate 6 of the device is provided with a series of slots 66, which correspond in number to the number of horses carried by the rotatable arms, each horse being preferably numbered and the slots being correspondingly numbered. These slots communicate with the space between the operatingplates 55 and 57, and a coin inserted through any one of the slots falls into the said space and rests in rearof one of the fingers 58 upon the plate 55 and in advance of one of the fingers 59 upon the plate 57, thus establishing operative connection between the said plates.

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The deposited coins rest upon columns 67, which divide the space below the slides into coin-receiving compartments 68, there being two tiers of said compartments, one above the other, and the bottoms of the compartments being produced by laterally-extending supporting-fingers 69 upon slide-bars and 71. Across the front of the compartment 68 is a glass plate 72, suitably supported upon the casing-frame, this plate rendering a deposited coin visible.

Coins being deposited through appropriate slotse. g., the slots 1, 3, and 5, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2--the handle 60 is pulled outwardly and the clock-train is set in motion in the manner heretofore described. As the slidebars 55 and 57 move forwardly the various coins are moved off of the supporting-columns 67 and fall into the appropriate compartments 68, said coins coming to rest upon the supporting-fingers 69. The slidebars 55 and 57 are thus free to be retracted at the proper times, and the coins or tokens are held in such position that they can be readily seen, said exposed coins serving to indicate the horses which have been selected as winners. toa slidable bar 73, which is normally pressed outwardly by a spring 74, mounted between The slide 70 is pivotally connected a suitable collar or stop 75 upon the said bar and some relatively fixed portion 7 6. of the machine, the supporting-fingers 69 being presented in positions to support coins in the various compartments 68 when the slide is in this projected position. The free end of the bar 73 is bent downwardly to present a finger 77, which lies in the path of travel of an actuating finger or lug 78, fast upon the shaft orarbor 28. This finger 78 engages the finger 77 as the shaft 28 is about to complete its rotation, and thus forces the slide-bar 73 backwardly against the action of the spring 74:, whereby the supporting-fingers 69 are carried from under the coins, which may be held in the upper compartments 68, and these coins drop through'the spaces between the said supporting-fingersand into the lower compartments. The fingers 65 and 78 are so placed upon the arbor or shaft 28 that the finger 78 completes ,lower compartments 68, they rest upon the supporting-fingers 69 of the slide 71 and are still exposed to view. The slide 71 is connected, by means of a link 79, with one arm of a lever 80, and the other arm of said lever is connected, by means of a link 81, with the slide"- bar 55. When, therefore, the slide-bar 55 is movedforwardly, as has been heretofore explained, in order to start the operation of the cloektrain the slide 71 is moved backwardly to carry its supporting-fingers 69 from under the coins in the lower compartments 68, and such coins are therefore deposited into a suitable coin-receptacle 82.

In devices of the nature indicated it not infrequently happens that two or more horses come to rest in such positions that it is difficult to determine which horse is actually in advance of another. In order to assist in determining such questions, I provide a sweepbar 83, which is loosely mounted upon the post 4:, the hub of said bar being suitably connected to a knurled button 84, which projects beyond the casing of the machine. If horses stop so closely together that it is difficult to determine as to which horse is in the lead, the said bar can be brought into line with the nose of one of the horses, and thus presents a straighteclgawith relation to which the positions of the horses can be determined.

I am aware that many minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a machine of the character indicated, an oscillating member, a pawl thereon, a loosely journaled arm, an object carried thereby, parts connected to said arm adapted to be engaged by said pawl, a power mechanism, and connection between said mechanism and said oscillating member for successively oscillating the latter whereby during the operation of said power mechanism said arm can be given a plurality of impulses at undetermined intervals; substantially as described.

2. In a machine of the character indicated, an oscillating member, a plurality of pawls thereon, a plurality of object-carrying members movable independent of said oscillating member, said respective object-carrying m cmbers cooperating with the respective said pawls, parts connected to said object-carrying members, said parts upon a given objectcarrying member being adapted to be engaged by the pawl cooperating with said memher, a power mechanism, and connection between said power mechanism and said oscillating member for successively oscillating the latter during the operation of the former; substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character indicated, a driving mechanism including a rotatable part provided with a' stop-pin, a lever having an arm adapted to. extend in the path of travel of said pin, a rotatable shaft, and a projection upon said shaft adapted to engage said lever for throwing the said arm into the path of travel of said pin; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this9th day of July, 1902.

EDWARD A. SANGUINET.

Witnesses:

GALES P. MOORE, GEORGE. BAKEVVELL. 

